Jennifer Rich
Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
• Published April 6, 2021
Whenever there’s an analysis or discussion about how much people know about the Holocaust, the focus is often on what they don’t know.For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and older found that 11% of U.S. adults and 22% of millennials...
This story originally appeared on Kveller, 70 Faces Media’s Jewish entertainment site.Clothes hound that I am — arf-arf — Women’s History Month takes my mind to Coco Chanel, the woman who made fashion history back in the 1920s. Chanel taught...
This essay originally appeared on Alma, 70 Faces Media’s feminist Jewish culture site.Had you asked me 20 years ago, 10 years ago, even last year (truthfully, last month) if I’d ever quote the Torah in a piece I was writing, I probably would have...
This story originally appeared on Alma.comFrom her corkscrew curls to eccentrically patterned dresses, Valerie Frizzle was the science teacher we always wished we had. Her role as the mystical, happy-go-lucky leader who took her class on field trips...
RACHEL BRAY-SPEZIA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 30, 2021
Getting pregnant with my son Wolfie wasn’t the easiest. We had to employ several reproductive medical treatments, medications and procedures. Ultimately, I did have a healthy and successful pregnancy after a family donated their remaining frozen embryos...
By Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose
• Published March 30, 2021
This Shabbat, we find ourselves celebrating the 7th Day of the Festival of Pesach and preparing for this week’s special reading of the account of Kriat Yam Suf, the crossing of the Sea of Reeds, which tradition posits took place on this day. And yet,...
Sports star takes deserved ‘Heat’ for anti-Semitic slur Regarding “NBA fines Meyers Leonard $50,000 for using anti-Semitic slur” (published online March 11, Jewish Light).My congratulations to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (who is Jewish) for...
BY MAHARAT RORI PICKER NEISS AND RABBI DANIEL BOGARD
• Published March 25, 2021
We broke so many rules that day. It had been nearly a full year since COVID-19 pushed us to shut everything down. Our services went virtual, our coffee meetings became phone calls, our classes became Zooms. While we recognize that for many people in...
This year we celebrated Passover early, on a Sunday a few days before St. Patrick’s Day. My adult children will disperse before the official holiday, but with the darkest days of the pandemic behind us, we have much to celebrate.The house smelled of...
I enjoy stories about Jewish celebrities in the Jewish Light. However, in a recent issue, the author of a “Jewish Guide to the 2021 Golden Globes” irritated me when he wrote about the film “Mank,” “(which) is about a ‘real’ Jew. … There...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 24, 2021
When Kamala Harris was sworn in as the 49th vice president of the United States, tears welled in the eyes of many women, some of color, some not. It was moving to finally see a woman taking her spot in the White House. We’ve never before seen a woman...
(JTA) — This year we celebrated Passover early, on a Sunday a few days before St. Patrick’s Day. My adult children will disperse before the official holiday, but with the darkest days of the pandemic behind us, we have much to celebrate.The house...
